Geble Pederssøn
Geble (also Gjeble) Pederssøn (* approx. 1490 in Herøy (Nordland) ; † March 9, 1557 in Bergen ) was a Norwegian clergyman. In 1537 he became the first Lutheran superintendent (bishop) in the diocese of Bergen (Bjørgvin) .
Life
After attending school in Trondheim and Bergen, Pederssøn studied in Alkmaar and Leuven . He received his master's degree and returned to Bergen, where he initially worked as rector at the cathedral school. In 1518 he was ordained a priest and accepted into the cathedral chapter , shortly thereafter appointed pastor at St. Mary's Church . In 1523 he traveled to Rome for confirmation for the bishop elected Olav Thorkelsson catch, and was even by Pope Adrian VI. determined to be his successor as archdeacon. There are hardly any sources about the following years, in which the first beginnings of the Reformation in Bergen spread. After Bishop Olav's death on May 23, 1535, Pederssøn was elected as his successor by the cathedral chapter, but was initially not confirmed. Only when King Christian III. In the summer of 1536, after the victory in the civil war , Pederssøn had a free hand to introduce the Reformation in Denmark and Norway, with the support of the governor Eske Bille, who won his trust. He traveled to Copenhagen in the summer of 1537 , where he was introduced as Lutheran superintendent of Bergen on September 2 (according to other information already on August 26) by royal order from Johannes Bugenhagen . (It was not until the 17th century that the superintendents in Denmark and Norway reassumed the title of bishop.)
Pederssøn remained in this post until his death, until 1541 as the only superintendent in Norway. He had the dilapidated Franciscan monastery restored in order to take the bishopric there, and made its church the cathedral church . Pederssøn himself continued to be celibate , but sat down, u. a. through visitations , for the anchoring of the Lutheran doctrine and church order in his diocese and other parts of Norway. In 1539 he introduced the Lutheran church order in the still vacant dioceses of Oslo and Hamar . He turned the cathedral school in Bergen into an evangelical model school to raise the next generation of pastors. One of his protégés, Absalon Pederssøn Beyer , later wrote his biography.
In 1555 Pederssøn suffered a stroke and asked for his departure. King Christian III did not grant that, but relieved him by releasing pastor Nils Henrikssøn as an assistant.
literature
- Geble Pederssøn . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 12 : Münch – Peirup . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1898, p. 620 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
- Absalon Pederssøn: Dagbok and Oration om Mester Geble . Edited by Det Norske språk- og literaturselskap. Text binding. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo 1963 Online publication .
- Ingun Montgomery : Pederssøn, Geble. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 132-133.
- Terje Ellingsen: Gjeble Pederssøn skriver brev . In: Bjørgvin 1986, pp. 13-25.
- Terje Ellingsen: Reformasjonen i Norge. There kirken valgte course . Kristiansand 1997, pp. 86-105.
Web links
- Bjarne Fossen is different: Gjeble Pederssøn. In: Norsk biografisk leksikon (Norwegian).
- Items. In: Store norske leksikon (Norwegian).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ellingsen, p. 88; according to other information in Teigstad (in the neighboring municipality of Dønna )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pederssøn, Geble |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pederssøn, Gjeble; Mester Geble |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian clergyman and first Lutheran superintendent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1490 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Herøy (Nordland) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 9, 1557 |
| Place of death | Bergen (Norway) |